A Dog's Passing
Topics:
"A Dog's Passing"
"Supporting Creatures in Healing By Paying Attention to Their Energy and Acting Naturally"
"Mass Beliefs in Medications and Health"
"Essence Flecks in a Dog"
"We Incorporate Mass Beliefs But Don't Always Express Them"
"Choosing to Oppose Reinforces Concentration on What You Don't Want"
"A Mother's Discounting of Self"
"Validity of Other Channeled Sources"
"Various Health Questions"
"Focus Validations"
Session 200702242 (2207)
"A Dog's Passing"
"Supporting Creatures in Healing By Paying Attention to Their Energy and Acting Naturally"
"Mass Beliefs in Medications and Health"
"Essence Flecks in a Dog"
"We Incorporate Mass Beliefs But Don't Always Express Them"
"Choosing to Oppose Reinforces Concentration on What You Don't Want"
"A Mother's Discounting of Self"
"Validity of Other Channeled Sources"
"Various Health Questions"
"Focus Validations"
Saturday, February 24, 2007 (Private/Phone)
Participants: Mary (Michael) and Deb C. (Oana)
"Acknowledging that you DO incorporate a particular belief and the influences of that belief allows you to not oppose it and to experiment with other influences of that belief, knowing that you are not eliminating any of your beliefs if you choose to continue within this particular reality."
"If you are continuing to concentrate upon some expression that you dislike, or you disagree with, or that is not your preference, you begin to generate the importance of the dislike. And in that, the actual manifestation itself becomes less important, and the dislike becomes the most important, and therefore you concentrate upon it and therefore you create it."
ELIAS: Good afternoon!
DEB: Hello, Elias, how are you?
ELIAS: As always, and yourself?
DEB: Well, I sometimes think I'm driving down the road 100 miles an hour, just trying to keep it between the ditches. (Elias laughs) Today is my birthday.
ELIAS: And I express happiness.
DEB: (Laughs) Fifty-two years old today. This session was originally going to be my birthday present to myself, and then I started manifesting all these financially goofy things and I called Mare. I said, "Mare, I think we're going to have to reschedule my session," and she said, "No, I think I'll just give it to you for your birthday." (Both laugh) I said, "Oh, thank you, thank you Mary. I so want to talk to Elias." (Elias laughs)
I have my list of things here, and I want to start off just talking about some impressions of focuses. Is that okay?
ELIAS: Very well.
DEB: All right. You know, we had talked before about my fear of water, and you had mentioned to me that I had a focus who died on the Titanic and you encouraged me to do some research into that, or get some impressions about that, which I did. I went and looked at the casualty list, and I thought, "No, I'm not going to study this, I'm just going to go through quickly and see what pops out."
My question is, was my current husband Jimmy also with me on the Titanic?
ELIAS: Yes.
DEB: My feeling is that we were a couple by the name of Mr. and Mrs. Allison from England?
ELIAS: Correct.
DEB: And we made the choice to stay together?
ELIAS: Correct.
DEB: Oh! Very good. My next question is, do I have a present-day focus in the Amish community?
ELIAS: Yes.
DEB: When the killings of the Amish youngsters at the schoolhouse happened a month or so ago, I was very affected by the energy of that. Even though I tried to realize what you had said before about no victims and that type of thing, my energy was drawn to the Amish people, and it made me wonder that I didn't have a focus there.
ELIAS: Yes, you are correct.
DEB: What about do I have a focus, or have had, as a Roman Catholic nun?
ELIAS: Yes.
DEB: Okay. My next question is, we had talked before that you and I in past focuses have been intimate, and I was wondering, was that during your focus as Beethoven?
ELIAS: No.
DEB: No; okay. Well, I had a dream, and in this dream I was kind of in the middle of a big field out in the middle of nowhere and there was a huge barn, and in the shingles of the roof of the barn was spelled out "immortal beloved." Can you give me some impression or some idea then as to what was that about?
ELIAS: That would be associated with that focus that you and I do share, but you are presenting that to yourself in symbolism with what is known to you in relation to one of my focuses but the similarity of expression in the focus that we share.
DEB: Okay. All right. And is that why that quite often when I think of you, I think of you as "Beloved Elias"?
ELIAS: Yes. (Laughs)
DEB: Or quite often when I think of Mary, I think of "Beloved Mary." (Elias laughs) I think Mary and I share a lot of focuses.
ELIAS: Yes, you are correct.
DEB: All right. Well then, I'm not your immortal beloved in that particular focus but in another.
ELIAS: Correct.
DEB: Okay.
Can you tell me what connection I have to the English actress Vivian Leigh?
ELIAS: Counterpart.
DEB: Okay. I was wondering if it was either counterpart or as an observing essence, because when I watch her movies I'm just totally engrossed in her. I'll just kind of like sit and stare at her. (Both laugh) I was thinking maybe that was the observing essence part, but it's counterpart.
ELIAS: Correct.
DEB: Okay. Also I'm wondering, was Bonnie Parker a focus of mine?
ELIAS: That would be observing.
DEB: Observing. Okay. Because I've always kind of been very interested in her too, and the other night up on my television comes a show about Bonnie and Clyde. (Elias laughs) And I thought, "Well, how very odd that that would show up the week before I'm supposed to talk to Elias." (Elias laughs)
Okay. And last question about focuses that I've got for you today: In my focus as a prostitute, was my name in that focus Louise?
ELIAS: Yes.
DEB: (Laughs) My husband sings a song to me about a prostitute and her name is Louise, and it's always been one of our favorite songs. So okay, all right. (Elias laughs) So that's happy. Okay, that's as far as I have gotten with focuses lately.
Next thing on my list, I wanted to talk to you about my little dog, Shengela. She passed away in December, and the way she passed away made it so very obvious to me what we had talked about before about creature choice. The morning that I left her and went to work she was happy, she was jumping around, she was eating her dog treats, and her dying that day was the last thing on my mind. And I came home that afternoon and she was just stretched out on the floor and just looked like she had lain down and gone to sleep. It was so validating for me in that it was her choice, she went when she wanted to go. She went in a way that was very comforting, or as comforting as could be, to my husband and I. My fear about her was always that I might have to have her put to sleep, and I did not want to be intrusive to her in that way.
One thing I wanted to tell you too is that I felt like I handled her passing because of so much of the things that you had told me about her and about the whole thing, and it wasn't because I had gone so many times and visited, you know, the idea of her dying; it was because I was recognizing it, from what you had told me, as a choice and that it was her decision to do it, she was not a victim. That really helped me so much in handling it and dealing with the sadness that I did feel when she went.
ELIAS: Yes. And I am greatly acknowledging of you.
DEB: It helped me so very much. Has she remanifested in physical dimension? Her consciousness?
ELIAS: Not yet.
DEB: Not. Okay. Well, that's fine. There have been a couple of times that I thought that I was picking up her presence. One time I was in the living room and I thought heard her sigh, and one time I was lying in bed and I thought I heard her scratch on the mattress. Are those impressions correct?
ELIAS: Yes, they are.
DEB: They are? Okay. All right, very good. I have looked at her life and tried to be learning the lessons or remembering the things that she was wanting to tell me. The thing that I have picked up from her most of all is to learn that the creatures do have choices and that I need to recognize it and not discount them by trying to people-ize them. And I very much tried to people-ize Sissy; I mean, she was my little girl, and I think a lot of the times I was kind of discounting of her consciousness as creature because I was doing that. Were there any other lessons that I could be gleaning from the time that she spent with us?
ELIAS: You already have, for in your experiences with that creature, it has influenced you to be more present with the other creatures that you incorporate. It has encouraged you to be more present with yourself, and it has encouraged you to be paying attention and listening to yourself – listening to your own intuition and not discounting yourself as much as you were previously.
DEB: Okay. That was one of the things too that I was going to talk to you a little bit about later. I wanted to ask you some questions about Bells and Blake.
One question about medications that I've had and the discussions that we've had before about them: When I use medications myself, or when I give medications to my creatures, the question comes to me is whether I am being discounting of myself and my creatures by utilizing these medicines, or am I merely recognizing my belief systems that I have about them and not fighting myself about it and really validating myself with my preferences when I do use them?
ELIAS: The latter would be correct.
DEB: Okay. All right.
ELIAS: It is not discounting of yourself to incorporate these different methods. In actuality, in allowing yourself to not oppose yourself and to generate the ease in the incorporation of these medications, you ARE validating yourself in your preferences and your beliefs, and you are also generating more of an ease, for you are not opposing yourself.
DEB: Okay. I'm not fighting myself about thinking, "You don't need to do this."
ELIAS: Correct.
DEB: It's very much that way with me. All right. Very good.
My little dog Blakie: Does that little creature have an essence fleck too? [1]
ELIAS: Yes.
DEB: I have two impressions. It's either my husband Jimmy or it's your friend Patel.
ELIAS: In actuality it is both.
DEB: Oh my god! I didn't know you could have an essence fleck of two essences.
ELIAS: You can incorporate many.
DEB: Really?
ELIAS: Yes.
DEB: Okay, I was not aware of that. I thought maybe it was one essence per creature. (Elias laughs) Well, the reason I wonder is because Bells and Blake – and I know Bells has an essence fleck from you – they just love each other so. And when they run and play and fight and such and have a good time, I've been thinking, "Oh, it's just Elias and Patel." (Elias laughs) But then too, my little Blake is just so attached to my husband Jimmy, he's very much kind of Jimmy's dog – he loves me too and all that, but he really is very attached to him. So that's why I was vacillating one or the other, one or the other. I didn't know you could have both! All right. Well, that explains that then, thank you for that. (Elias laughs)
Tell me why that little dog manifested his hip problem that he had surgery for? Or shall I give you my impression first?
ELIAS: Yes.
DEB: Both little Bells and Blakie have had orthopedic problems lately that they've had surgical repairs for, and I'm wondering: Because it was dealing with hips and knees, is it having something to do with a support issue, like them supporting us through Sissy being sick and her death? Or is that not completely related, was it just for the experience of going through that?
ELIAS: Partially a support for you and your partner, and partially a support and connection between themselves.
DEB: Ah, okay. All right. So what one wanted to have done, the other wanted the experience too, huh?
ELIAS: (Chuckles) Similar.
DEB: (Laughs) Why am I not surprised? Well, they both had a nice little visit over to the K-State vet med orthopedic department, so I hope they got that out of their systems now. (Both laugh) I don't feel I need to do that again. The thing that was kind of funny about it was, Blakie was kind of affected even when he was a little puppy and we knew that something was going on. Bells, my little drama dog, was fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, and then all of a sudden he started manifesting this problem with his leg. It was after Blakie had already had his surgery and was doing well, and I'm thinking, "Now what is causing you to decide that we want to be messing around with this and going through essentially kind of the same thing Blakie did?" Well, that's interesting, then. (Elias chuckles).
Well, as much as I love those little creatures, and I truly do, I'm truly wanting them now to be getting better. I told Jimmy how much it has been a happy thing for me to see Blakie recover from his surgery, and now he runs around like a nitwit and is silly, and Bells is also doing very well, and I want to kind of encourage them or influence them in a way to be happy, healthy, long-lived dogs. Do I need to be changing my energy towards them a little bit? Are they being still a little bit influenced by my feeling that I need to be mothering, protecting and caring for them?
ELIAS: No.
DEB: Okay. Well, they're just doing their own thing.
ELIAS: Yes, and I would express to you that they receive your energy quite well in encouragement, and in that, I would express to you allowing yourself to be your natural self will be the greatest support.
DEB: Okay. Well, that kind of plays right into my next question, or my next thing that I want to talk to you about. When Bells had his little surgery, the doctors over there said, "Now look, when you take him home you've got to keep him in a crate for six weeks. He has to be quiet, quiet, quiet. You can take him out, let go to the bathroom, put him back in the crate. And then at six weeks you can start taking him out on a leash and that kind of stuff," and I'm thinking, "Oh my god!"
Well, when we brought little Bells home, for the first couple of days he was pretty sedate, he was pretty quiet, and that was not a problem. But he has had such a tremendous recovery. I mean, they said, "You start doing exercises on his legs in two weeks;" by two days he was putting weight on that leg and doing it himself. And I'm thinking I feel like I have to pay attention to the energy of this creature. I think that putting him in a crate for six weeks is not necessary. I do try to influence him to be on the quiet side of rambunctious. I feel like when I'm all the time after him, like "Bells, sit down and be quiet, Bells get in your bed, Bells don't fight with Blakie," I catch myself doing this and I think, "You're being so discounting to that creature. That creature knows what he can and can't do and what he wants to and doesn't want to do." Am I correct in drawing my impression here?
ELIAS: (Emphatically) Yes, you are. And I am greatly acknowledging and encouraging of you.
DEB: Oh, thank you, thank you. I've battled myself. You know, I've battled my medical belief systems about if you don't do what they say and if he manifests something badly it's going to be your fault, it's going to be your responsibility. And I've so been listening and trying to pull myself back away from that, realizing that the doctors have their belief systems for whatever reasons they have it, but I want to read the energy of my creature and be following that because it makes me feel better.
ELIAS: And I am greatly encouraging of you in this, my friend. And I would express to you that if you notice yourself moving in the direction of demanding certain behaviors of this little creature, as you have expressed in your example, rather than moving in that type of expression, allow yourself to incorporate an action that is natural for you. Allow yourself to pick up the creature and hold it in affection, for this is a natural action for you, to be nurturing and to be expressing that affection. And in that, you encourage the creature to be calm, and you allow yourself to express your own natural nurturing expressions.
DEB: Yes, yes. And I notice he is much happier if I just allow him to stay with me or stay out in the house as he normally does. He's quieter and calmer than if I would keep him in a crate.
ELIAS: Yes.
DEB: Yes, okay. All right, well that makes me feel very, very happy then.
I have come to find out that I have a tremendous belief system about creatures in particular – but not just creatures, I suppose, but about anything that's smaller than me. I have to protect it, I have to take care of it, I have to nurture it, I have to be responsible for it. I was relating this to my children, and with all three of my sons who are now taller than me, bigger than me, I feel no need to protect, nurture, be responsible for them now that they are grown men, but as long as something is smaller than me, I have a tremendous need to take care of it. (Elias laughs) And I'm thinking, "You know, you're really being very discounting to the creature when you do that, even though I'm doing it because I love you so much I don't want something to happen to you."
ELIAS: But not necessarily, my friend.
DEB: No? Okay, but that's what I was feeling, like I'm saying to this creature, "You're too small. You're too weak. You're too insignificant. You can't take care of yourself, you certainly can't create creatively, and what would you do if it wasn't for me?"
ELIAS: I'm understanding, and in some capacities that is correct, that you would be somewhat discounting of the creature's ability to create for itself, but that is a lesser element than the natural element. This is a natural expression for you, my friend.
DEB: Oh yeah.
ELIAS: And in that, allowing yourself to be nurturing and to be protecting is not necessarily always discounting of the creature, for you are recognizing that they do incorporate their own choices, and you are acknowledging that they do incorporate the ability to create themselves; and therefore, you are more so merely allowing yourself to express your own natural flow of energy.
DEB: Okay.
ELIAS: Therefore, that expression is not discounting, and you will, as you practice and as you continue to pay attention and be aware, recognize the difference in moments in which you are naturally expressing your energy of nurturing or moments in which you are being discounting of their ability to choose.
DEB: Okay, all right. Sometimes that's a fine line, I think, for me. But I do feel like I'm getting better about recognizing whether I'm trying to be interfering or whether I'm just expressing and relating to them.
ELIAS: Yes.
DEB: Okay. All right, oh very good. Well, that makes me feel better, because I thought, "I shouldn't get into this mindset of feeling like just because you're small you're just not big enough to cut the mustard so I need to step in there and be responsible for you." (Elias laughs) That helps me. Thank you so much for that.
I have from time to time a tingling sensation in my neck, my shoulders, my back – not a painful thing at all, just a tingling thing. I'm taking that as an expression of energy from someone. I'm not sure whether it's you or whether it's my own essence.
ELIAS: I would express that this energy is a combination of energies of yourself and of your other little creature.
DEB: My other little creature.
ELIAS: Yes.
DEB: Bells?
ELIAS: No. The creature that chose to disengage.
DEB: Oh, Shengela! Okay. So I'm picking up her energies when I'm feeling that sometimes then.
ELIAS: Yes.
DEB: And I'm taking it that it's meant in a comforting way, or a reminder to me to kind of ramp down and relax a little bit?
ELIAS: Both. Yes.
DEB: Okay, anything else that I'm missing in that message?
ELIAS: No. That would be what you are presenting to yourself in this manifestation.
DEB: Okay, all right. Well, that's nice to know. I'm glad I don't have some weird neurological disease going on there. (Elias laughs) That's very obvious; sometimes I have it a lot, sometimes not at all. Okay. Well, all right, very good!
I want to know, Elias: I see your blue energy quite often. Whose energy is orange?
ELIAS: (Laughs) Patel.
DEB: Okay. And whose energy is purple?
ELIAS: Ordin.
DEB: Ordin, which is another teaching essence.
ELIAS: Yes.
DEB: All right. For a long, long, time I think I've been seeing Patel even before I was able to see you. When I would try to meditate I would see these huge orange circles that would go away from me. It was like I was going backwards down a tunnel, and these orange circles would go away from me and continually get smaller. And I kept thinking, "Why can't I make those orange circles turn around and come the other way, come towards me?" (Elias laughs) I've never been able to do that. So that is your friend Patel.
ELIAS: Yes.
DEB: And what is Patel trying to tell me? Anything in particular you would like to make me aware of?
ELIAS: Merely being playful.
DEB: Okay, all right. Well, I'd read somebody had an orange manifestation on their computer the other day. (Elias laughs) That was Patel being playful. Okay, all right.
ELIAS: It is quite a mischievous essence.
DEB: [Inaudible] all the good things I want to talk about, I've had a couple… hm… manifestations, things that I've manifested lately that were just kind of "wow!" [Inaudible] or not to my preference, we'll say that, and I wanted to run those past you a little bit and get some ideas. One thing that I learned from the first one, your concept about your perception creates your reality: oh man, did that so come up and hit me in the face. I had gone to the local grocery store, and I was in a hurry and I ran in, got my things, I came out and I thought my car was stolen. I couldn't see my car. It was like not there. And so I immediately panicked, and I ran back in and I had this person help me to call the police and file this report about my car, somebody stole my car. And I went back out, and I realized when I turned my head that I had come out a different door than I had gone in, and there was my car. And I thought, "Oh! does my perception not create my reality?" (Elias laughs)
And I thought, "Okay now, this was manifested for a reason. What do I need to learn from this?" And the first thing I learned was not to feel like a victim and not to immediately hit the panic button, and to appreciate the fact that yeah, you do some goofy things but yes, your car was there, you do have a car so everything's cool. And when I looked back on it later in the day it was kind of funny, but at the time it was not at all funny. I was very panicky and very feeling like a victim in that. Was that the reason I manifested that?
ELIAS: Yes, and to also illustrate the STRENGTH of perception.
DEB: Ohhh yeah. That was a strong one, all right. (Both laugh)
All right, lesson learned there, I got that.
Then the thing that has been most upsetting to me – and I know you're aware of this because I've been talking to you about it directly -- this fall I decided the cold and flu season mass belief is something I'm not even going to deal with. I recognize it as a mass belief, it's my preference not to go there, so I didn't get a flu shot and everybody around me was incorporating the sniffles and the cold and flu and cold and flu, and I'm thinking, "No. Belief system? I'm not going to go there. It's my preference not to do that."
Then I started to get a little bit of scratchy throat, and I thought, "Okay, Elias said these belief systems are very, very strong, so if I'm going to go ahead and do this, it's going to be very mild and it's going to be a very short duration and I'll just say okay, I dabbled my toe in it but that's it, nothing beyond that." Three days later I wake up and I'm so short of breath that I'm scared for my husband to leave me here, because I don't think I can get dressed and drive myself to the hospital. I was panicky. I was thinking, "Okay, just calm down, calm down, calm down." And I remember telling you, Elias, if this is an opportunity to disengage, the answer this time is no. I don't know if you heard me say that or not, but I did. (Elias laughs)
And I was totally, totally out of control with my manifestation. I ended up going to the emergency room because I was so panicky about it. They took a chest x-ray, they give me some oxygen, they gave me some medicine, they give me some pills, patted me on the head and out the door I went.
And the whole time I was in the emergency room, I even told Jimmy, "Why? Why am I manifesting this? This is 180 degrees opposite of my preferences, of what I thought I believed about my ability to choose or not choose to align with the belief system." It made me feel so betrayed and so stupid. And I'm thinking I'm doing so good! I'm doing so good with understanding and being in tune with what I really believe, and apparently I was 180 degrees off. (Elias chuckles) And I need some help. I talked to Mary about this prior to you coming, and she's helped me a little bit. But I need some help, Elias; I need some insight from you about what was that all about.
ELIAS: First of all, in your description of this scenario, you expressed that you express to yourself you acknowledge that this is a belief and that you are refusing to align with it.
DEB: Yes.
ELIAS: Now; this is your first snare.
DEB: Okay.
ELIAS: For you are viewing the belief, labeling this as a mass belief – which it is, but in order to be a mass belief it must be incorporated by many individuals.
DEB: Okay.
ELIAS: Now; in labeling this "the mass belief" and expressing to yourself "I refuse to align with this," the association that you are generating is that this is some expression outside of you that you can choose to pick up or not.
DEB: Yes.
ELIAS: You are generating an association that this is a "thing," similar to an object, therefore this thing outside of you you can view, you can approach and you can either pick it up or you can let it be.
DEB: Yes.
ELIAS: This is not the recognition of beliefs, for your beliefs are not outside of you, and mass beliefs are not outside of you either. They are merely designated as mass beliefs for the reason that many, many, many, many individuals – masses of individuals – incorporate them as expressed beliefs, but they are expressed within you. And yes, there are some mass beliefs that you may not necessarily align with, but the meaning of that is not that you have chosen to incorporate some expression outside of yourself but that you all incorporate all beliefs. You do not EXPRESS all beliefs; therefore, the beliefs that are expressed within you are those that you align with, not that you are aligning with some expression outside of yourself.
As an example, there are masses of individuals that incorporate the expressed belief that violence, or what you now term to be terrorism, is justified and acceptable and therefore it is engaged. That is an expressed belief, therefore the individuals that hold that expressed belief align with it, and that will influence their behavior and their choices.
You do not incorporate that as an expressed belief, therefore you do not align with that mass belief, for within you, you have chosen your reality. When I express to you that you choose your reality, there are many, many factors. The beliefs that you incorporate are very directly associated with how you've chosen to be manifest in this particular focus. You choose a particular society, you choose a particular community, you choose a particular government, you chose a particular philosophy, you choose particular religious influences – there are many, many, many factors that are involved with the beliefs that you incorporate as expressed beliefs.
In incorporation of those expressed beliefs, it is not a matter of merely thinking you are not going to express that belief. Thinking thought does not create your reality; it translates. Therefore, you can think and think and think that you do not agree with this particular mass belief and therefore you will not align with it, and that will not affect your reality and what you create, for thinking does not create your reality. What you do is expressed in relation to perception. Perception DOES create your reality.
Just as you offered yourself the example with your vehicle and how strongly your reality is created in one direction or another and how real that is in the moment, for that is the expression of perception, and perception does create your actual reality. Therefore, in the one moment that you perceived your vehicle to be stolen, it actually was not present in that area. It was not necessarily stolen, but it was not present. In the other moment in which you remanifested it, it became present again, but there were moments in which it actually was not present.
DEB: Okay. Now I wasn't really going crazy there, was I?
ELIAS: No, for your perception creates your reality. Therefore, if your perception is designating that a particular object is not present or does not exist, it literally is not present or does not exist.
DEB: Okay.
ELIAS: If your perception is expressing that an element DOES exist it will exist, for you will create it.
DEB: That was made perfectly clear to me, my little parking lot escapade there, so yeah.
ELIAS: Correct!
DEB: What better way to make it clear to me than what happened there?
ELIAS: Not necessarily, for you generate examples to yourself in association with your desire to present information to yourself and with what type of information you are presenting to yourself in any particular moment and what you are ready for in any particular timing.
Now; in association with the illness, remember: You create what you concentrate upon, and concentration is not necessarily what you are thinking. Concentration is influenced by your beliefs and by your attention. Your beliefs and your attention very much influence perception.
Now; in this, if you move your attention to the thought mechanism and are occupying your attention with the thinking that you refuse to engage a particular action, or that you refuse to participate in a particular direction, you are not paying attention to your concentration, which is seated in your beliefs. Therefore, you create a distraction from the concentration by moving your attention to the thinking, which distracts you from paying attention to what you are actually doing.
And in that, in not paying attention to what you are actually doing and generating repeat thinking -- "I will not participate in this mass belief, I will not participate in this mass belief, I will not participate in this mass belief" – what you are doing is generating repeat thinking, which is not allowing for any new information. Thinking only translates, and it can only translate information that it is being offered. Therefore, if it is not being offered new information, it will seek out old information, and it will replay old information, which in repeating, it is malfunctioning. And in that, it can create tremendous distractions for your attention which move your attention away from new information and distracts you from paying attention to what you are actually doing.
When I express paying attention to what you are actually DOING, I am not merely expressing to be paying attention to what you are physically doing, although that is an element. I am also expressing to you to pay attention to what you are doing inwardly. In generating the refusal to participate in this outside expression, what you are doing is you are generating another separation. You are separating yourself from your own beliefs, which creates an obstacle, for that does not allow you to connect with and view them clearly – it disguises them.
In this also, what you are doing is generating an opposing energy. When you move into the expression of strong refusal, you are opposing. You are viewing some expression as a threat, and you are attempting to push away and therefore you are opposing. Now you are not paying attention, you are opposing, you are distracting, and you are disconnecting yourself from your own concentration and from your own beliefs.
You incorporate expressed beliefs in association with health which also are mass beliefs, and individuals align with these or express them in varying degrees. Acknowledging that you DO incorporate a particular belief and the influences of that belief allows you to not oppose it and to experiment with other influences of that belief, knowing that you are not eliminating any of your beliefs if you choose to continue within this particular reality.
Therefore, if you are recognizing "Yes, I do incorporate this belief, and I also recognize that my strongest association with this particular belief is that this can occur in relation to this belief or that most individuals will generate this type of choice in relation to this belief," even in the expression of "If I manifest this particular illness, I will create it quite slightly and it will be not much affecting"— even in expressing that, you are reinforcing the opposition that you are refusing to participate.
DEB: See, that's where I get confused because I thought that was my ability to choose.
ELIAS: You incorporate the ability to choose, yes.
DEB: I thought I was choosing, and apparently I wasn't.
ELIAS: You were choosing; you were choosing to oppose, and in choosing to oppose you were reinforcing the concentration upon what you did not want – for what you did not want then becomes important.
DEB: I see. It's like what Abraham talks about when you say yes to the universe, you say yes; when you say no to the universe, you still say yes.
ELIAS: In a manner of speaking.
DEB: In the energy that you're projecting, it's an attraction-type thing?
ELIAS: Let me express to you, my friend: You generate, you create what you concentrate upon, and what you concentrate upon is what is important.
DEB: Whether it is something that you really want or something that you really don't want.
ELIAS: Correct. And what you do not want can be equally as important as what you want, and therefore the importance influences the perception and therefore that is what becomes created.
Your dislike of some expression, if generated into considerable importance… Perception does not generate the distinction. It receives the communication. It receives the instruction, "This is important, create it."
DEB: Okay.
ELIAS: And therefore you do. Therefore, if you are continuing to concentrate upon some expression that you dislike, or you disagree with, or that is not your preference, you begin to generate the importance of the dislike.
DEB: I see. Okay.
ELIAS: And in that, the actual manifestation itself becomes less important, and the dislike becomes the most important, and therefore you concentrate upon it and therefore you create it.
DEB: Okay, all right. So then my feeling about it, after ruminating through all this mess, is that the manifestations are better indicators to me of my beliefs than my thoughts are.
ELIAS: Yes.
DEB: Or what I think I believe. Is that true?
ELIAS: Yes. You are correct.
DEB: Okay.
ELIAS: Pay attention to what you are actually doing. When you are generating a physical action and you are thinking in one direction but you are actually also expressing worry, what you are doing is different than what you are thinking.
DEB: Okay, and that's where you could get snagged up.
ELIAS: Yes.
DEB: Okay. I was relating that example to Mary earlier about smoking, and I was thinking, "Oh good, Elias says that if I don't hold a belief system or I don't believe that smoking is bad for me, I can enjoy a cigarette with my glass of wine and feel no guilt, nor do I need to be worried about manifesting an illness like lung cancer, because I am not going to be buying into that belief system." But she tells me it's not quite that way.
ELIAS: This allows you what you have been expressing: a temporary reprieve, in a manner of speaking, to readjust your perception and relax it somewhat. You move in the direction of accepting that statement as an absolute – which it is not – but in doing so, it allows you a time framework in which you can readjust your perception in not being SO absolute and allowing for a new association that perhaps it is possible that you can choose to be incorporating this action of smoking and not create any physical dysfunction.
In this, what it allows you to do is lessen somewhat the strength of the association with cause and effect that [if] you incorporate one action, it is not an absolute that a particular effect will follow.
DEB: Yes, and I think I'm getting to that point.
ELIAS: Yes! Which is what you have been entertaining. But also, there is another factor beyond. Once recognizing that you are relaxing the rigidity and the absoluteness of certain associations with cause and effect in many different expressions, you can begin to recognize the next element that your beliefs are not outside of you and they are not disappearing.
But where your freedom lies is that every belief incorporates many influences, and therefore you can choose which influences you express, but it is not a matter of merely thinking. That will not create a difference, for that is not what thinking is designed for. And it does not, and I cannot express this and emphasize this enough, that it does not create your reality.
DEB: I think that's why I was feeling so betrayed and so stupid, is that I was feeling like I think I know what I believe, and in actuality then, when that did not manifest and it manifested completely the opposite of what I thought, then I thought, "Well then how do you know what you believe? I'm just going along here and doing okay and it's bang, it was obvious I didn't even know what I was thinking."
ELIAS: It is not necessarily that you do not know what you believe or what your beliefs are; it is that you are confusing your beliefs with what you want or do not want in a particular moment, and the thinking can easily confuse those. For, thinking can only generate an accurate translation if it is being offered accurate information, and that is dependent upon attention. Where you move your attention, what you pay attention to, that is what your thinking will translate. Therefore, if your attention is not being directed to what you are doing or what your beliefs are, your thinking cannot accurately translate. Therefore, you begin thinking in one direction and doing in another direction.
DEB: So the best way then to do that is to not send out negative energy about "I don't want this or I don't want that," because in a way that can cause it to manifest just as easily as believing that you DO want this or you do want that.
ELIAS: Yes, in a manner of speaking you are correct. Now, in that, I am not expressing that you cannot or should not incorporate your preferences and your opinions, for these are expressions of what you do want or you do not want, or you like or you dislike. And in that, those are all associated with your individual guidelines, and you WILL incorporate certain preferences, certain likes and dislikes, which is natural, but recognizing what type of energy you are placing in conjunction with those likes and dislikes and what importance you are expressing with them.
DEB: Okay. All right. That makes me feel a little better after talking to Mary and talking to you about it, because I was really feeling kind of like, "Wow, this was a major crash." (Elias chuckles). Like, "Three steps back here in where I thought where I was going and what I was able to manifest and then.. bang."
ELIAS: In actuality, my friend, this has offered you an excellent opportunity to offer yourself new information and to generate more clarity in what you ARE doing.
DEB: I think what it's telling me is that I have those medical beliefs so deeply ingrained that probably I would be better off if I would just go along with them, take the flu shot every year and not be always trying to think I can do this without medicine, I can do this without having a flu shot, blah blah blah, and not fighting myself about it.
ELIAS: Medicines and physicians and these types of expressions are not your enemy.
DEB: Okay. (Elias laughs)
I had a thought the other day when I was ruminating about this. I thought, "You know, physicians are good at offering energy to people who are sick, but they really don't have a place or they don't have a mission with people who are well." The reason I was thinking about this is because of my mother. She has to go to the doctor, or thinks she does, even when she's not sick, just to get a checkup. And I'm thinking really my belief system about it is that they are good for offering energy and helping people when they are sick, but I'm not sure that we should really set them up as guardians of our health. That's a belief system, I know, but that's what came to me about it.
ELIAS: And I am acknowledging of you, and I would express to you that I agree, for this would be your own individual –
DEB: Thank you for that.
Okay. I do have one thing before I let you go. Talking about my mother again, you know how she and I have had this relationship, I did try over this holiday season to be a little more encouraging of her to not be so discounting of herself, and I'm not sure that it was… We sat down to the holiday dinner, and probably fifteen times in the first ten minutes she made the comment about the turkey's too dry, the turkey's too dry, the turkey's too dry. And pretty soon it's like "Mom, Mom, it's fine, it's fine." I said, "You really shouldn't be so discounting of yourself all the time, it's fine." And then she looked at me and said, "What do you want me to say, that I'm the smartest person in the world?" And I said, "Well, I would rather hear you say that, mother, than hear you be discounting of yourself." (Laughs) And that's about as far as that went. (Elias laughs)
And then that night when I came home and I closed my eyes, bang!, you and Otha were just so there, just there, and I'm thinking "Okay, are they telling me 'Good job, kid, you were trying to be supportive, you were trying to help,' or were you just saying, 'Oh kid, when are you ever going to learn? Just don't even go there.' (Both laugh) And I took it that you were just being supportive.
ELIAS: Yes.
DEB: Okay. Can you answer for me – and I don't know why this keeps sticking in my craw, but why, Elias, why does she continue to do this? Is it because she is truly herself so insecure in herself, or is she trying to get us to continually compliment or continue to say "No, Mom, it's fine, you did a great job"? Why does she always do that?
ELIAS: It would be an element of both, and they are interrelated.
DEB: Okay. So it's not just one or the other.
ELIAS: Correct, for in her own discounting of herself she seeks approval from outside of herself.
DEB: Let me ask you real quickly about some of the other channeled information from sources like Matthew, Kris, Veronica: these sources all pretty much agree on the same things that you say. Are they to be accepted and acknowledged as accurate?
ELIAS: They are all valid. They incorporate different directions and different elements of distortion at times, but they are all valid.
DEB: Is Suzy really talking to or conversing with the essence of her son Matthew, or is she getting this information from her own essence?
ELIAS: It is an energy exchange.
DEB: Okay, so it is much like what you do with Mary.
ELIAS: Yes.
DEB: Okay. A couple more questions here. My middle son Tim, I want to ask a question for him. The last seven-eight months he has had episodes of what he calls muscle tremors or shaking that he has been quite concerned about. In fact, his initial diagnosis of himself was that he was coming down with some horrid disease like multiple sclerosis or some horrible thing. And I think he's kind of backed off of that a little bit. I've talked to him a little bit about it, about some of the possible causes and I think it's getting some better for him. He doesn't manifest it as often as he did, but he still does. Can you give me some information that I might pass on to him, some directions that he might explore about what the cause of this this?
ELIAS: You may express to him to lessen the pressure that he expresses with himself.
DEB: Okay, because he does. He is one of those kids that he expresses with himself – to be gentler with himself then.
ELIAS: And to lessen the pressure. He expresses tremendous pressure of himself. He is pressuring himself in many directions, and if he lessens the pressure he will lessen the intensity of the holding of energy. And in that, it will not seek manifestations to be expressed in these types of symptoms.
DEB: Okay, So what he's doing is holding energy because he has tremendous expectations of himself?
ELIAS: Yes.
DEB: That's what he's doing? That's why he's manifesting that?
ELIAS: Yes.
DEB: So that's what he's doing, and that's what I will express to him.
My husband Jimmy, Mr. Zuli, has been having some expressions lately of feeling worried about aging when he gets aches and pains and those type of things. Can I express something to him about that?
ELIAS: That, I would express, is very similar to what you and I have been discussing in what you pay attention to and what you generate importance with.
DEB: Okay. And I told him that because he is kind of a Zuli that he is very much into his body and his body consciousness and wants it always to be perfect, that's what he says (Elias laughs), and I think that's why he is noticing these little aches and pains and that type of thing.
ELIAS: Yes.
DEB: One last question I have for you. Lately I've having a lot of trouble with my eyes. My vision has been very cloudy when I have my contacts in. I went to my eye doctor and he said it's your age and it's your hormones. Neither one of those belief systems am I really comfortable with. Am I trying to tell myself that there's something I don't want to see or that I don't want to acknowledge, or is it merely belief systems in age and hormones?
ELIAS: I would express that perhaps it shall clear somewhat now that you have allowed yourself to present the information that your beliefs are not outside of you. And now, if you move in the direction of accepting that they are within you and that they are expressed, and not to be opposing them and merely generating aligning with different influences of them, you can relax and alter the physical manifestations.
DEB: Okay. All right, well then, I'm to the end of my questions. Can I ask if you have any parting words of advice that I can be meditating on or keeping in the forefront of my mind?
ELIAS: I would express that you incorporate considerable information already in this conversation. (Laughs)
DEB: I have, haven't I?
ELIAS: Remember the importance of importance. (Chuckles)
DEB: All right. Well, I thank you so much. I've been looking forward to talking to you for such a long time and getting answers to some of these questions about my creatures and all that kind of stuff, and it's always such a joy for me to talk to you, and I thank you so much.
ELIAS: You are welcome.
DEB: And I'm going to keep driving down the road at 100 miles an hour and trying to keep it between the ditches and being joyful. I'm really trying to do that. My main thing, especially with my creatures, is like I said ramping down that responsibility, that energy, and being accepting and just enjoying them and not feeling like I have to be on guard all the time. and that's been a big help for me lately with both of the boys.
ELIAS: Very well.
DEB: So, I thank you very much Elias for everything that you have helped me with.
ELIAS: You are very welcome, my friend. I express my energy and encouragement and supportiveness to you.
DEB: Oh thank you. Thank you as always.
ELIAS: I express great affection and lovingness to you, my friend. Until our next meeting, au revoir.
DEB: Au revoir to you.
[1] The subject of essence flecks appears first in the published transcripts in Session 502. Basic definition is "an aspect, a fleck of energy into … physical manifestations … within this physical dimension; this also being quite purposeful in the actual physical participation of this dimension without creating an actual physical manifestation … of focuses.
…."There are many different methods, so to speak, that any essence may choose to be participating in any particular physical dimension, and not necessarily manifesting actual focuses of attention."
(Elias departs after 1 hour 10 minutes)
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